The Ithaca College contingent faculty union announced it will hold a strike vote Feb. 13 and 14 on campus.

For over a year, the Ithaca College administration has been in a contentious bargaining battle with two contingent faculty unions, part-time and full-time. The part time–faculty union has been stuck on two difficult aspects of the contracts: job security and compensation.

Over the past two weeks, departments across the college have written letters of support for the unions, including the anthropology, politics, and sociology departments, among others.